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Electricity Price Squeeze: Something’s Going to Give
Electricity is our energy future, but the details of that future are still sketchy. Right now, the picture is being drawn by billionaire investors, but it looks dark and dystopian. Surely more imaginative artists could do better.
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November 27, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Climate and the Revival of Political Hope
A transformation of climate politics will come when the majority on the margins becomes a self-aware political force. The approach sketched here—combining adaptation, emotionally literate education, and campaigns that awaken collective efficacy—offers practical, hopeful steps toward that outcome.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Directional Advice for the (More Than) Human Predicament
In this week’s episode, Nate invites listeners into an exploration of what it means to navigate a growing predicament shaped by ecological limits, rapid technological changes, and shifting expectations of reality.
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November 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Should We Start Taxing Meat?
The debate continues, but one certainty is that we must make the production and consumption of meat and dairy more sustainable and realign our agricultural systems with planetary boundaries and dietary guidelines.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Will there be solar panels after the dust has settled?
Solar panels will continue to work for decades. But soon enough societies will have to reproduce its energy resources, if you can’t do that, they are hardly renewable in the first place.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Look Up
No matter how little we have or how crazy our lives, we all are enveloped in an impressionist painting if we just look up. We all share the brilliant sunlight, the ever-changing sky, the magical phases of the moon.
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November 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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With modernity failing, will clubs and community organizations make a huge comeback?

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November 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Our broken and brutal economy
The frustration is reaching critical mass, and it will drive change. The question is what type, and direction, of change?
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November 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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When Resistance Is Kinship: The Ecology of Post-Partisan Change
Post-partisan does not mean passive; it means discerning. It means recognizing that real change depends on an ecology of responses including resistance, building, healing, and culture work. Each is necessary, but none is sufficient alone.
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November 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Beyond Carbon: A Paradigm Shift for Climate Action
We must enforce, fund, and model policies that recognize the forest not merely as a carbon repository, but as the planet’s irreplaceable air conditioning and freshwater generation system.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Two Ways of Knowing: How Merging Science & Indigenous Wisdom Fuels New Discoveries
In this episode, Nate is joined by Rosa Vásquez Espinoza, a Peruvian chemical biologist with Andean-Amazonian indigenous roots, to discuss how she is actively merging modern science and indigenous knowledge through innovative research in the Amazon Rainforest.
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November 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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The U.S. Isn’t Leading at COP30 — But It Is Un-damming Its Way to Climate Resilience
Dam removals aren’t a climate cure-all, but the magnitude of the crisis we face will require all the tools we can muster — and master. Several decades of dam removals across the U.S. has proved they work to restore rivers better and faster than anything else. Now let’s put them to use for climate action, too.
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November 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Space Case
It’s not news that many in our culture are violently allergic to the notion of limits (and then we all die of limitations). Maybe fear of death is another key driver for space fantasy, but let’s not get into that just now.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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From Shanghai with energy
Can China face the challenges awaiting humankind in the near future?
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November 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Crazy Town: Episode 114. Worried about the Future? Join the Club
There’s the book club, the Rotary Club, the Mickey Mouse Club, and the club sandwich. Whatever your preference, you might want to think about joining a club. Social clubs, fraternal orders, and the like have had a storied and critical role in public life.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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11 Discoveries That Changed My Worldview
This episode combines Nate’s own evolution of understanding with the overarching narrative of The Great Simplification, speaking to what it means to be human in a dichotomous era of abundance and depletion, of numbness and awakening.
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November 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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How New York and Seattle mayoral victories point the way to systemic change
The tasks facing us are monumental, but we can begin with steps we take in our own communities. We must build the future in place.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Tehran contemplates “evacuation” as many cities across the globe face water dilemmas
The world's cities creep closer to actual water system collapse.
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November 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Can a Family Resurrect the American Chestnut Tree in Appalachia?
Virginia tree farmers reintroduce an iconic tree that was decimated by blight.
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November 16, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Two Birds, One Stone: Collaboration in Rights of Nature and Ecocide Jurisprudence
If we truly seek to create relations of accountability and peace with our larger environment(s), jurisprudence needs to evolve beyond our current anthropocentric lens, and we can make it so by encouraging environmental movements to collaborate in developing ecocentric governance approaches.
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November 16, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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Rethinking Supply Chains
Working at smaller scales means that the benefits of additional crop rotations, processing mills and artisan-micro-maker labs could be spread throughout the country, bringing greater resilience and livelihoods to rural areas. Energy demands would be lower and distributed as processing would be localised and require limited transport.
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November 15, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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What social movements can learn from the ‘innovator’s dilemma’
If legacy organizations are structurally constrained, then we need to nurture the new actors — ones willing to fail, to iterate and to take risks that can help spark major transformations. For this reason, I believe it is worth looking in more detail at lessons we might apply from the innovator’s dilemma.
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November 15, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Running on Empty: The World’s Adaptation Failure is Fueling Climate Chaos
Without urgent and equitable action to fund adaptation, the next decade will not only test our infrastructure; it will test our humanity. Adaptation is not charity; it is climate justice. And justice delayed will only deepen the loss.
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November 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Pluralistic: The enshittification of labor
How would a job guarantee disenshittify the labor market? The job guarantee means a "permanent, publicly provided employment opportunity to anyone ready and willing to work, it establishes an effective floor for the entire labor market."
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November 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Post-Partisan Pathways: Why Food and Place Matter for Democracy
Post-partisan practice is not compromise; it’s a strategy for shared survival. Perhaps the path through this civilizational turning begins with a simpler question: What does this place need, and who else shares that need?
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November 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM